Joy Enough: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of the daughter making and remaking her life in her mother’s image. Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, amazing newcomer Sarah McColl offers penned an indelible tribute to the pleasure and discomfort of adoring well. Even as her own marriage splinters, McColl drops everything when her mother is identified as having cancer, time for the family farmhouse and laboring more than elaborate meals in the hopes of nourishing her back again to health. In a series of vibrant vignettes?lipstick applied, novels browse, imperfect cakes baked?McColl reveals a female of endless appeal and infinite love on her behalf unruly brood of children. Mining the dual loss of both her young marriage and her beloved mom, McColl confronts her identification as a female, walking lightly in the footsteps of the girl who came before her and clinging fast to the joy she left out. With candor reminiscent of classics like C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed, Joy Enough offers a tale that blooms with existence.